|
|
Article: Competitive hagiography in biographies of al-Awza'i and Sufyan al-Thawri.
- Article from:
- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 American Oriental Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT of Islamic law involved both the elaboration of increasingly complex systems for deriving positive law from Islamic sources (whose validity and relationship to each other were still by no means settled) and the process of defining boundaries between the emerging Islamic legal madhhabs. Modern discussions of the origins of Islamic law and the advent of madhhabs typically follow Joseph Schacht's basic chronology, according to which legal decisions were initially made on case by case bases relying upon past precedents. This approach eventually led to regional variations of a "living tradition," which ultimately transformed into eponymous madhhabs, some ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: LAW: Understanding Islamic Law: From Classical to ...
The Middle East Journal;
October 1, 2006 ;
700+ words
...Understanding Islamic Law: From Classical to Contemporary ... short book is a sympathetic survey of Islamic law that provides a useful but incomplete ... anic) basis for various areas of Islamic law, including criminal, contract ...
|
|